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MATCH Filed Aug. 21, 1929 INYENTOR. Harry fia/rgaz/m ATTORNEY.

Patented Nov. 11, 1930 UNITED v STATES EPATE HARRY H. HONIGBA'UM, OF NEW YORK, N. "Z.

MATCH Application filed August 21, 1929. Serial No. 887,820.

This invention is a match and more particularly a match so constituted that it will burn a relatively short time and then immediately become extinguished so that if it is a discarded in inflammable material it will not remain lighted sufficiently long to cause resulting conflagration.

Matches as now enerall made embody a splintwhichis in ammab e throu hout its entire len th whether the splint be 0 wood or paper. t is of course true that under the present practice, the splints are parafin dipped for only a portion of their length, but

nevertheless as the match burns the parafin recedes before the flame so as to cause a relativ'ely bright and active flame until the entire splint is consumed. According to the present invention, in contra-distinction, a match is made so that when onl a suficient portion of the length thereof will burn as is re uired to light a cigarette, pipe or cigar, an il the match may thereupon be held fora moment until it has burned itself out and then may be discarded without fear of ignitin inflammable material into whichv it may is l. Aside from the safety feature referred to the match of this invention will not burn I the fingers as the flame is extinguished long before it reaches the fingers holding the match. I

In the referred manner of makin matches in accor ance with this invention, t e splint portion of the match is composed of an inflammable and a non-inflammable part. For example, the portion of the splint ada ted to be held in the hand is preferably media of metal but some other non-inflammable material may be used, and may conveniently be in 0 be relatively short and a so-called handle part either of inflammable or non-inflammable material may be mountedthereon in spaced relation to the inflammable portion of Y the match which carries the head, the spacing being suflicient to preclude communication of the ame from the inflammable part to the handle in the event that the, handle is of combustible material.

Features of the invention other than those specified will be apparent from the following detailed description and the accompanying drawings, and from the appended claims.

The accompanying drawings illustrate diflerent practical embodiments of the invention, but the constructions therein shown are to be understood as illustrative, only, and not as defining the limits of the invention.

Figure 1 is a central lon 'tudinal section P of one form'of match embo ying the present invention.

Figure 2 is aside elevation, of said match.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section through a modified form of match of this invention.

Figure 4 is a side elevation of the match in Figure 3.

By referenceto Figures 1 and 2 it will be noted that the splint is formed of parts 1 and 2, the latter of which is of highly inflammable material such as wood, paper, and the like, and this portion ma be dipped in parafin as is common in t e match art to render it more inflammable. lhe part 1 may be in the form of a wire rod or a strip of sheet metal suitably secured to the part 2, as by impaling the part 2 thereon or in any other convenient way. The part 2 is headed by dipping or otherwise.

In the construction of Figure 2 the noncombustible partl is ada ted to be rasped by the fingers whilestriixing and holding the match and the match is adapted to be P held until the part 2 is ,fully extin uished, it being possible to do this without urnin'g the fingers by the flame from part 2 as part 1 is madelsufiiciently long to permit it to be grasped remotely with respect to part2. In the construction of Figures 3 and 4, the match is provided with a so-called handle portion 4 connected to the inflammable part 2 by a dent.

relatively short connection 1 which may be made in the same manner as part 1 of Figures 1 and 2, and somewhat shorter. The handle '4 may be of either inflammable or non-in.-

flammable material as may be desired, the spacing between the parts 2 and 4 being sufiicient to reclude the communication of flame from t e part 2 to the part 4.

The manner of manipulating the match in either instance is conventional exce t that no care need be taken against burmng the fingers as the non-inflammable parts 1 and 1" form a ositive safeguard against such accihesenon-inflamma le parts, moreover, permit the part 2 to be made relatively small, i. e. of just suflicient size to fulfill the normal functions of lightin a pipe, cigar, or cigarette. In practice t is part burns with considerable rapidity and the head and active flame well adapted for ignition urposes, and yet this flame is of such s ort' duration that while thorou hly effective for ignition purposes, it will ie out in a sufiiciently short period so that even the most impatient person willnot'hesitate to hold the match during this short interval, of this operation. Thus, when'the match is'discarded all combustible parts thereof have been consumed-and. even though it fall in highly inflammable material, ignition of such material will not result.

The match of this invention may be economically manufactured, is thoroughly efliv cient for its intended purposes, and atthe same timeis absolutely safe both from the standpoint of personal injury and from the stand oint of inadvertent conflagration.

I WlSll'it understood that while I have referred to the non-inflammable parts as preferably made of metal, these parts may be made of other non-combustible material without departing from this invention, the scope of which is to be fully understood as fully commensurate with the appended claims.

Havin thus fully described my invention, what I c aim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A match embodying a splint com rising .a fibrous (gaper or wood) combustible tion, and a brous (paper or wood) hand e in alined spaced relation thereto, ametallic member connected at its opposite ends respectively to the handle and combustible rtions, and a striking head on the free end of the combustible portion.

2. A match embodying a fibrous (wood or paper) combustible portion having a head extending in one direction from said. portion and a metallic portion extendin from sai combustible portion inthe opposite direction from said head. A j

. In testimony whereof I have signed the foregoing specification.

HARRY H. HONIGBAUM. 

